Features

The main feature of Bacula Enterprise Exchange EWS Plugin is to offer backup and restore of Exchange Server environments at item level, which is the major possible granularity for Exchange services. This includes: emails, attachments, calendar appointments, tasks, contacts and folder structures.

In addition to the main goal, this plugin permits the user to adjust the overall functions to fit his environment offering large flexibility to select the target information to protect, to filter it because of privacy reasons or to do it efficiently through different strategies involving the parallelization of the implied operations.

General Features

Below, there is a list of general features this plugin offers:

  • Backup and restore Exchange Server items

  • Microsoft EWS API based backups

  • Multi-service backup in the same job (email, calendar, contact and/or task)

  • Multi-service parallelization capabilities

  • Multi-thread single service processes

  • Automatic parallelization of fetching processes

  • Generation of user-friendly report for restore operations

  • Network resiliency mechanisms

  • Mailbox discovery capabilities

  • List/query and auto-generation capabilities if combined with ScanPlugin

  • Restore objects to Exchange Server

    • To original mailbox

    • To any other mailbox

    • To a different Exchange Server (cross-server restore)

  • Restore any object to filesystem

  • Full, Incremental & Differential backups

    • Advanced delta function for improved performance

  • Mail folder, messages, appointments, contacts, tasks and attachments granularity for backup and restore

  • Email addresses and folders selection capabilities for backup

  • Backup and restore MIME objects for migration purposes

  • Emails indexed at item level into Bacula Catalog

  • Advanced search capabilities for restore operations

  • Generation of user-friendly restore report into the destination mailbox

  • Privacy filters for emails:

    • Ability to exclude email message fields from the catalog

    • Exclude private or spam messages through powerful filtering capability by rules.

Protected Items

Below, there is a list of all the items that can be backed up and restored using this plugin:

  • User mailboxes

  • Shared mailboxes

  • Mailbox folder structure

  • In-place archiving

  • Emails and associated attachments

  • Calendar appointments and associated attachments

  • Contacts and associated attachments

  • User tasks and associated attachments.

See also

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